Filtering by: Gender and Body Politics
Tracing Bodies & Spaces: Art & Activism in South Kurdistan
Oct
10
12:00 PM12:00
Gender and Body Politics

Tracing Bodies & Spaces: Art & Activism in South Kurdistan

Date: Thursday, October 10

Time: Noon- 1:30 PM

Location: Online

This event will bring together feminist writers, artists, curators and academics who work in the context of South Kurdistan. In their conversation they will centre the question of how artists and activists in the region address issues around body politics, religious conservatism and intimacy.

Particularly since 2014 and the onslaught of ISIS (or daesh), artists have been chronicling the ways in which women’s bodies are being used as a battlefield between competing religious, political and cultural actors. Disillusioned with party politics, women’s NGOs or foreign donor agendas, a new generation of creatives are curating their own exhibitions, cinema clubs, and reading groups. These initiatives to date remain small, local, self-funded and transient, yet they mark a major shift towards a diversification of spaces for critical engagement and imagining a Kurdistan “otherwise”.

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Annabel Daou | Declarations from the Fleeting Present
Sep
28
12:00 PM12:00
Gender and Body Politics

Annabel Daou | Declarations from the Fleeting Present

In conversation with visual and performance artist Annabel Daou, Columbia University professor Kathryn Spellman Poots and Brown University professor Nadje Al-Ali, will introduce her art and the social and political significance of her work.

This conversation is part of a joint Middle East Institute at Columbia University and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University series on gender, art, and body politics in the Middle East and its diasporas.

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Alia Al-Senussi — Gendered Perspectives on Culture? Creativity, Art, and Culture in the Arab countries of the Gulf
Feb
10
12:00 PM12:00
Talk, Gender and Body Politics

Alia Al-Senussi — Gendered Perspectives on Culture? Creativity, Art, and Culture in the Arab countries of the Gulf

Recent spasms of activism (throughout the world) and massive governmental reform has brought great change to the GCC countries in the creative sectors in terms of trying to breach the gap of representation, recognition, and value, as well as in terms of openness, conversations, and communications. How have these changes impacted the cultural ecosystem and specifically the art world? With more diverse voices being heard, do we have different exhibitions and curatorial discourses? Does gender impact the input and the outcome? It is interesting to ask these questions, to pause and ponder the process of the systemic change we are experiencing: where are we on its timeline? What have we learned and what still needs to be done? If there is such a thing as ‘gendered perspective on culture,' how does it function and translate into the everyday art world, within the realm of museums, institutions, curators, and artists?

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